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Takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins.

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From a View to a Death

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    A Paperback / softback by Anthony Powell

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 26 March 2014
      ISBN-13 9780226132969
      978-0226132969
      ISBN-10 022613296X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins.

      Trade Review
      "A master of irony... a writer of social comedy as revelatory as any written by Evelyn Waugh or Henry Green." (Leo Lerman, New York Times) "A must for Powell devotees." (Edmund Fuller, New York Times Book Review, on What's Become of Waring?)"

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